Children Speak: When the cartoon "sucks their brains out"!

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I was going to let my grandsons watch a cartoon when they visited last week. We had set up the iPad on their bed with the Zooka speaker. What did they want they want to watch? Well, it turns out there are rules. They take them very seriously and even obey them when their mother and father are not watching. Here is what I learned.

• Sponge Bob Square Pants sucks their brains out so they cannot watch that.
• Anything with policemen or guns is banned unless it is on the Learning Channel so their sister can find out about being a policeman. Guns are a very bad thing they tell me.
• Peter Rabbit Christmas Show is scary and they don't watch it because they cannot sleep.
• Grown up TV is not allowed because it is about bad stuff.
• They love Dino Dan...it is not a rule but if they had their way the rule would be that it is on 24/7.

They had me at "sucks my brains out".  Wow!

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p.s. The two year old is having a Scooby Doo party for his third birthday. Doesn't that have ghosts and dark closets? It even scares me a little bit. I really don't know how that fits in the plan!

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Really GOOD Free TV and Movies

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We share one TV right now.  It is that time of year when my husband really NEEDS to watch football/golf/baseball all at the same time.  Our one TV is busy-busy-busy.  I am beginning to sympathize with Bob Lowery over at Satisfying Retirement.  He and his wife decided to cut the cord and eliminate cable TV.  I too am basically without cable tv right now.  But, after I began tuning into Hula on my computer, my hunger for more choices was taken care of.  I actually think we could do the same thing as Bob.

This is the way it works.  You go to Hulu.com and start clicking.  If you are willing to add a little money ($7.95 per month, one month free) and increase your choices you can sign up for HuluPlus.  I do have a free account but you can also sign in with Facebook or not sign it at all. It is easy and did I mention FREE!

I watch cooking shows on my kitchen computer when I am working there.  It is just comforting for some reason.  When my husband is watching games on the big screen, I just find a show on Hulu and watch it on our laptop.  I will be catching up on Fringe and Bones. It is a whole new tv show/movie world out there.  And FREE is good so we will stick with that!

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